Works

When Alphons Diepenbrock, just 26 years old, left his parental home in Amsterdam, on the third of September 1888, to live independently in ’s-Hertogenbosch, where he was appointed to teach classical l…

instrumentation: solo voice and piano ♦ Autograph A-6(1) is the earliest dated music manuscript of Diepenbrock to have been transmitted. It is a loose sheet with on the front side only the first strophe of the composition and on the bottom …

instrumentation: military chapel ♦ Diepenbrock composed the Academische feestmarsch (Academic Festive March) in the spring of 1882 at the request of the Amsterdam Student Fraternity for the upcoming celebration of the fifth anniversary…

instrumentation: tenor and piano ♦ There are no autographs of the Drie Ballades (Three Ballads) opus 1 in the Diepenbrock archive; nevertheless, the date of composition of each of the songs is known as Diepenbrock wrote the month and y…

instrumentation: tenor and piano ♦ When in April 1905 the music publisher A.A. Noske approached Diepenbrock with a proposal to publish several of his songs, requesting the composer to send the manuscripts he felt were most suitable, on…

instrumentation: male choir a cappella ♦ Friedrich von Matthisson (1761-1831) was renowned during his lifetime; he was praised for the melancholic mood of his poetry. However, after his death he was soon forgotten. A passage from Diepenbrock…

instrumentation: tenor and piano ♦ In June 1885 Th.J. Roothaan in Amsterdam published the Drie Ballades (Three Ballads) for tenor and piano by Alphons Diepenbrock. The composer, who was a student at the University of Amsterdam, was 23 …

instrumentation: mixed choir a cappella ♦ Dämmerung (Twilight), number VIII of the cycle Chinesisch-Deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten (Chinese-German Seasons and Times of Day), is the first poem by Goethe that Diepenbrock set to music. There i…

instrumentation: soprano and piano ♦ On 17 March 1882, while Diepenbrock was in his second year at the University of Amsterdam, he suggested defending the proposition “Heine cannot be considered a perfect poet” to the members of the deba…

instrumentation: contralto, mixed choir and piano for four hands ♦ Diepenbrock composed Blij stond de zon (Joyfully Stood the Sun) for the wedding of one of his college friends, Jan Sterck (1859-1941). In 1877 Sterck enrolled at the Law department of the University o…